There was some discussion in the 2012 MBP area about doing this, but there was no conclusion that it could or could not be done. Do you have any definitive info or reasoning/explanation to back up your conclusion? Thx, Fred

Jaychau1997 & Fred Turner-the parts catalog disagrees with you. My first link shows the '12 boards as being compatible with only '12 boxes...'' the early '11 and late '11 will swap with each other but not with other years'''

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